IPSec will not connect (racoon: couldn't find configuration)
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Hey, guys.
I'm having a problem with my IPSec configuration.
On one side, everything works out pretty nice.
On the other side, racoon is making bad noises about not finding a correct configuration."ERROR: couldn't find configuration."
However, if I kill racoon, and run it in the foreground with debug output on, I get some more information.
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: ===
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: 100 bytes message received from <remote_ip>[57413] to <local_ip>[500]
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG:
ba9d946f 3cf4cf90 00000000 00000000 01100200 00000000 00000064 0d000034
00000001 00000001 00000028 01010001 00000020 01010000 800b0001 800c04b0
80010005 80030001 80020002 80040002 00000014 afcad713 68a1f1c9 6b8696fc
77570100
2008-07-16 16:06:27: DEBUG: no remote configuration found.
2008-07-16 16:06:27: ERROR: couldn't find configuration.The configuration is pretty straight forward, generated by pfSense.
cat racoon.conf
path pre_shared_key "/var/etc/psk.txt";
path certificate "/var/etc";
remote <remote_ip>{
exchange_mode main;
my_identifier address "<gw on="" correct="" vlan="">";peers_identifier address <remote_ip>;
initial_contact on;
support_proxy on;
proposal_check obey;proposal {
encryption_algorithm 3des;
hash_algorithm sha1;
authentication_method pre_shared_key;
dh_group 2;
lifetime time 2400 secs;
}
lifetime time 2400 secs;
}sainfo address <local_network>any address <remote_network>any {
encryption_algorithm 3des,blowfish,cast128,rijndael,rijndael 256;
authentication_algorithm hmac_sha1,hmac_md5;
compression_algorithm deflate;
lifetime time 1200 secs;
}Here is the weird thing; if I change that remote stanza to read
remote anonymous {
blah;
}then everything works out nice, racoon even tells me it uses the anonymous stanza for that correct IP.
2008-07-16 16:11:06: DEBUG: anonymous configuration selected for <remote_ip>.
So, to me this seems really odd, how come racoon isn't picking up that stanza when configured like pfsense configures it ?
Using the remote stanza is not what I really want, and either way I can't see a way to make pfsense generate one of those either.So, does anyone have any ideas on what is going on here ?
Using tcpdump I can see that it is in fact my <remote_ip>that is coming through to racoon, on port 500/UDP.Thanks for a great product, by the way.</remote_ip></remote_ip></remote_network></local_network></remote_ip></gw></remote_ip></local_ip></remote_ip>